Is being poor expensive?

Blisterman wrote: »

Pay for toilet paper?

towel401 wrote: »

being poor is not expensive, being rich is. real rich folk spend tons of money on maintainence and utilities. if you're really poor you might live in a squat and pay no rent or electricity and that sort of thing. rich people also have more to lose if they get caught breaking the law. but if you don't have anything of value robbing stuff will be more appealing

People don't rob stuff because they're poor - they rob stuff because they are assholes.

Please don't anybody reply with "they're just victims of society", they're not. They're cretins.

There are plenty of people out there that are poor and don't have to resort to criminality.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/13/ethicalliving-carbonfootprints.

Not so much for the hippy angle

it can cost more in the long run if you're quite poor. like the aforementioned examples of toilet paper, or just most things, the essentials, are cheaper to buy in bulk, but require more money up front, from washing powder to bog roll, to petrol, it will often cost less in the long run to buy everything up front, once. personally, i am quite poor, and if i want something, i do have to save up for a good while to afford it, i refuse to fall into the trap of hire purchasing or loans, as they do cost so much more in the long run, neither do i have a credit card, because i worry i would spend more than i can afford and end up in debt, with interest.

the first thing that struck my mind though, was health. cos healthcare/medicine etc isnt cheap, and so often, the less healthy things are cheaper. i try to eat a lot of fresh fruit as part of my diet, but it is getting more and more expensive, and the weeks i can't afford it, i tend to just live on bread/toast/pasta, cos it's just so dirt cheap. not to mention the fact that for 2l of milk (here, in nz), it costs about $3-5, while a decent sized scoop of chips from the fish'n'chip shop averages about $1.70-2.30. less healthy, but infinitely more filling. little things like this, build up to much bigger health issues.

as do, (another new zealand case in point), poor living conditions. here, it is not the normal thing to have properly insulated homes, or central heating. mould is a common problem, and the poorer half of the population are much much more likely to suffer from respiratory illnesses. this costs in days missed at work, medicine, seeing the doctor... not to mention the amount of elderly/weak who die in winter purely cos the house is too damp. yeah, being poor can cost a hell of an amount, really. /rant

heh, pretty much. man, that was a bit of a ramble though

Crumble Froo wrote: »

heh, pretty much. man, that was a bit of a ramble though

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